The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics by Ralph Stefan Weir - 9781032457680

The Mind-Body Problem and MetaphysicsAn Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance\nAuthor(s): Ralph Stefan Weir\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032457680, 978-1032457680\nSynopsis\nThis book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul of traditional metaphysics.\n\nIn the first half of the book, the author clarifies what is at issue in the choice between theories that posit nonphysical properties only and those that posit nonphysical substances. The crucial question, he argues, is whether one posits nonphysical things that satisfy an Aristotelian-Cartesian independence definition of substance: nonphysical things that could exist in the absence of anything else. In t.